Paedodontics

The treatment of children in dentistry is a special field of its own that requires experience, care and understanding of child psychology.

For the sake of your child’s teeth, Prinzly Dental takes special care and precautions to handle kids so that their cases can be a one visit treatment either under general anesthesia or local anesthesia.

At Prinzly dental, although the underlying principles of children management are the same with adults, we placed importance on prevention as shown on our Paedodontics treatment plan and parents/patients’ oral health education. Our typical plan involves

  • Treating the patient before treating the teeth
  • Relief pain
  • Establishing a happy bonding relationship
  • Prevention
  • Development of a healthy and attractive dentition

Types of Dental Problems In Children?

Toothache: A child may come down with an outright toothache without previous history of pains. Such a child is usually in pains, anxious, apprehensive and crying. The child needs special care and attention involving; Behavioral Management Techniques.

So in our clinic we ensure that the child patient is given the necessary attention and knowing that the outcome of the visit would be the bench mark for future dental treatment and visits.

Abnormailities of Tooth Extraction and Exfoliation    

  •    Neonatal teeth
  •    Teething
  •    Eruption cyst
  •    Failure of or delayed eruption
  •    Disruption of  normal eruption sequence
  •    Submerged primary molar teeth  

These are some of the conditions we are managing our clinic in children

 Abnormalities Of Tooth Number  

  1. Anodontia: Complete absence or all the teeth
  2. Oligodontia or Hypodontia: Absence of one or more teeth
  3. Hyperdontia  Supernumerary Teeth: Presence of extra tooth/teeth

Abnormalities of Tooth Structure

 Disturbances of structure of enamel can  manifest as

  •     Hypoplasia
  •     Hypomineralization
  •     Fluorosis
  •     Amelogenesis imperfecta                 

Disturbance in the structure of dentine

Disturbance in the stricture of  cementum

Abnormalities of tooth form

  •    Double teeth
  •    Macrodontia/megadontia
  •    Microdontia
  •    Densindent
  •    Dilacerations
  •    Turner tooth
  •    Taurodontia

Abnormalities of tooth colour

  •    Extrinsic stains
  •    Intrinsic stains
  •    Enamel opacities

All the above conditions in children requires special treatment and advice which are offered at our clinic.